Birthday Girl

My goddaughter's birthday was a hit and so was the pudding cake! My friend dreamed up this cake for her daughter so we were up until 2am gathering all the ingredients and putting it together. Usually this "Pudding Cake" is called "Dirt Cake" and is chocolate, but Denise wanted it to look like the beach, so she made it vanilla, and the ocean is blue jello. We put jelly candy fish in the jello and candy that look like rocks on the sand, we made a long buoy out of marshmellows and a long red vine. All in all it was a bit hit with everyone, including the birthday girl!

Too bad we tripled the recipe, and now there is tons left over!

But now It's back to work, I have a consignment order to work on!

Just Desserts

It's the holiday season and I now have three hats in my desserts series; a Neapolitan, a cupcake, and now a Christmas pudding hat. I sold the pudding hat right after I made it, but here is the picture of it.

I am having trouble with the holly leaves, and am trying to find a good pattern, the rest of the Christmas Pudding hat I just made up on my own, I can post the pattern here if anyone wants it. I used my regular fruit hat leaves in the picture, but I will change it once I can make good holly leaves. I usually like my leaves to be double sided, but I may have to compromise in this case. But I have a whole year to perfect my pattern.

The ever-popular cupcake hat pattern is a combo of the pattern from Susan Anderson's new book, Itty Bitty Nursery and from this website: http://www.nakedsheep.com/cupcakehat.html.

As always, number of stitches are a suggestion, check your gauge, and I like to think of all patterns as suggestion, not a demand. I love her patterns for inspiration, but I do like to may my own changes and adjustments. The nubbles took some working out, but then they became rather fun to make.

The Neapolitan Ice Cream hat is the easiest, just three simple colors and a cherry knot top. I gave this one to my collegue who photographed her daughter wearing it and she gets plenty af awww's in it. So I know it is a keeper of a pattern. The trick is to get the right number of rows for the red for the cherry. And this will vary from yarn to yarn.

It is is a nice, quick, and easy novelty hat to make. But now I have to make three baskets of baby goodies for three pregnant cousins, and then it will be bunny hat season. But right now my Etsy store is a pink explosion for Valentine's day. I never knew I made so many hats with that much pink. It's almost scarry.

Maybe I should invest in some anti-pink patterns, a black apple hat perhaps?